Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invading contingent from the Pine tree state in Hemenway gymnasium last night with a score of 53 to 25. A good passing attack gave Harvard an early lead. At the end of the half the score stood 32 to 10. With this lead many men were used to finish the game, piling up a lead on the weakening University of Maine forces...
...yard run. When the pistol cracked for the start of the 600-yard event. Haggerty was badly blocked at the start and Kane was soon trailing fourth or fifth. By the time the runners had passed the press stand with but two more laps before the finish, Kane had sneaked up to third place. The order was the same as they rounded the turn for the final lap: yet Kane broke the tape and lowered the record by two-fifths of a second...
...false hair, she falls in love with a boisterous buck private named John Smith. Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque. At the last, everybody begins to run around, faster and faster, taking spills and turning somersaults. Even Lya de Putti was panting at the finish, as were many members of the audience who found Buck Privates funny...
...history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line. "Who is second," she asked. "There is no second," was the answer. The U. S. invader won by hours...
...entire bay of the nave of the Cathedral which is now rising was built by contributions from the sporting world. In token of that service stained glass windows in that bay will depict the finish of a horse race, two boxers squaring off at the gong, the follow-through at the end of a single to center field, and other episodes in a score of athletic fields...